After Round 1 of The Open we have a five way tie at the top of the leaderboard. Jacob Skov Olesen, Haotong Li, Matt Fitzpatrick, Harris English and Christiaan Bezuidenhout all shot -4 so it’ll be interesting to see how we stand at the halfway stage.
We have a three way tie at the top of our LMS leaderboard with John, Kevin and Jim all on -11, there are plenty of entries only a couple shot behind. The Round 2 update could look very different!
At the other end of the table, Chris and Alex probably won’t be challenging for the prize pot as they both sit on +12, 23 shots behind the leaders!
Thankfully there were no withdrawals before everyone had teed off. As a result, the prize pot remains at £16,650, which is split as follows:
1st – £12,500
2nd – £3,325
3rd – £825
Top 10
After Round 1, the top 10 is as follows:
1st – John Maloney -11 (-4, -4, -3)
1st – Kevin Connell 2 -11 (-4, -4, -3)
1st – Jim Cheung 5 -11 (-4, -4, -3)
4th – Jeff Baker 2 -10 (-4, -3, -3)
5th – Harry Kane 2 -9 (-4, -4, -1)
5th – Steven Dudney 5 -9 (-4, -4, -1)
5th – Jamie McHarg 2 -9 (-4, -4, -1)
5th – Lee Crompton -9 (-4, -4, -1)
5th – Ryan Rees -9 (-4, -4, -1)
5th – Oli Bramley -9 (-4, -4, -1)
The predicted cut currently stands at +2, so the entries with Tommy Fleetwood – 20 (210), Sepp Straka – 55 (171), Ludvig Aberg – 20 (158), Ryan Fox – 80 (152), Viktor Hovland – 25 (147), Marco Penge – 125 (131), Tom McKibbin – 140 (118), Russell Henley – 55 (112) and Adam Scott – 70 (106) will all be sweating today as they are in danger of missing the cut.
Individual scores can be viewed on our website by clicking on the link below
https://lms.golf/2025-lms/2025-the-open/2025-the-open-last-man-standing-leaderboard/
Shot of the Day
Shot of the day goes to Matt Fitzpatrick for his slam dunk on hole 16 which ensured he finished Round 1 as one of the joint leaders.
https://x.com/BBCSport/status/1945854657567302067?s=03
We will send out an update after Round 2 with details on how many people have survived the cut.
Best of luck,
Cole & Alex